eerie

英 ['ɪərɪ] 美

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※ 提供单词"eerie"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

eerie 怪异的

来自古英语earg, 可怕的。

eerie: eerie: [13] Eerie seems to come ultimately from Old English earg ‘cowardly’, a descendant of prehistoric Germanic *arg-, although the connection has not been established for certain. It emerged in Scotland and northern England in the 13th century in the sense ‘cowardly, fearful’, and it was not until the 18th century that it began to veer round semantically from ‘afraid’ to ‘causing fear’. Burns was one of the first to use it so in print: ‘Be thou a bogle by the eerie side of an auld thorn’. In the course of the 19th century its use gradually spread further south to become general English.
eerie (adj.): also eery, c. 1300, "timid, affected by superstitious fear," north England and Scottish variant of Old English earg "cowardly, fearful, craven, vile, wretched, useless," from Proto-Germanic *argaz (cognates: Old Frisian erg "evil, bad," Middle Dutch arch "bad," Dutch arg, Old High German arg "cowardly, worthless," German arg "bad, wicked," Old Norse argr "unmanly, voluptuous," Swedish arg "malicious"). Sense of "causing fear because of strangeness" is first attested 1792. Finnish arka "cowardly" is a Germanic loan-word.

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4. As I entered the corridor which led to my room that eerie feeling came over me.: 走进通往我房间的走廊时，那种怪异恐怖的感觉包围了我。

5. The film has eerie parallels with the drama being played out in real life.: 这部电影和现实生活中发生的一系列戏剧性事件有着诡异的巧合之处。